GOETHE AND EVIL: “FAUST, PART ONE”

Faust, Part One

✍ Goethe, J. W. von 📂 Standards 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford World's Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowled

Faust: Part One

✍ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; David Luke 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 237 KB 👁 3 views

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's _Faust_ \--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest

Faust: Part One

✍ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; David Luke 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 237 KB 👁 3 views

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's _Faust_ \--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest

The 'Evil Spirit' in Goethe's Faust I

✍ C. A. Eggert 📂 Article 📅 1900 🏛 John Hopkins University Press ⚖ 479 KB

Mephisto's Principles: On the Constructi

Mephisto's Principles: On the Construction of Evil in Goethe's Faust I

✍ Dror, Adi; Fishman, Ayelet 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Maney Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 171 KB

Goethe's Faust, part 1: new American version

✍ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Peter Salm 📂 Fiction 📅 1949;1957 🏛 Bantam Books;New Directions 🌐 English ⚖ 92 KB 👁 2 views

Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust ****has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, expe